icansleep
Don Corleone
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Feb 7, 2008 15:52:22 GMT -5
Post by icansleep on Feb 7, 2008 15:52:22 GMT -5
New TNA developmental territory? What says you TNArmy?
TNA 4Ever. And 4Life.
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JD Turk
Team Rocket
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Feb 7, 2008 15:59:22 GMT -5
Post by JD Turk on Feb 7, 2008 15:59:22 GMT -5
Would TNA need one ? They got the Indies for that.
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Feb 7, 2008 16:34:31 GMT -5
Post by plushtar on Feb 7, 2008 16:34:31 GMT -5
Doesen't Booker T. own some sort of small wrestling promotion. Maybe TNA can farm talent from Booker T (and SHIMMER).
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Feb 7, 2008 16:36:02 GMT -5
Post by Andrew is Good on Feb 7, 2008 16:36:02 GMT -5
I think OVW could be a promotion to work all on its own. They can bring in a lot of free agent star power that were on OVW television (The Idol, Basham, Damaja, Conway, Eugene), and I think OVW could do really well on their own.
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Celgress
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Feb 7, 2008 17:22:37 GMT -5
Post by Celgress on Feb 7, 2008 17:22:37 GMT -5
Oh hell yeah. It could do TNA a world of good IMHO.
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metylerca
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Feb 7, 2008 17:24:34 GMT -5
Post by metylerca on Feb 7, 2008 17:24:34 GMT -5
TNArmy? .... nevertheless
I think it would be a pretty good move to the company to have a place for wrestlers to hone their craft. Hell.. it would help make more homegrown stars when you think about it. Isn't that what the IWC always used to complain about?
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Feb 8, 2008 2:17:58 GMT -5
Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Feb 8, 2008 2:17:58 GMT -5
It'd be a good idea for them to have a developmental territory. OVW, maybe. But common sense would say to use Booker T.'s promotion. Which is why it'll never happen.
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Feb 8, 2008 2:33:16 GMT -5
Post by TripleMerc on Feb 8, 2008 2:33:16 GMT -5
TNA doesn't need that, they have.... TNA.
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EJS
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Feb 8, 2008 6:53:56 GMT -5
Post by EJS on Feb 8, 2008 6:53:56 GMT -5
Developmental territories in wrestling seem like a pointless thing to me. Hire people who are good enough NOW and you don't need them.
I guess in theory it could work if it were used to give young 18-20ish guys experience, but in practice, spending that time on the indies, maybe heading overseas tends to do a whole lot better than the way WWE grooms their young guys.
It also seems to become almost an encouragment for your creative team to be lazy, as WWE uses theirs as a place to stick people that a few agents/people in power pushed to hire, but the writers don't give a crap about. So they spend a year or two in OVW and get released because "creative had nothing for them".
If TNA learned from these mistakes, and took measures to make sure their way of doing developmental was totally different... But that's asking a whole lot.
One thing I like is WWE's supposed interest in international developmental territories. Getting your young guys in front of different audiences than just Kentucky hicks would probably help matters a lot. Spending some time working in Japan or Europe or Mexico, or hell travelling aorund to all of them. Probably would be really hard to keep something like that organized though. And even still seems like more trouble than it's worth, there are plenty of guys who are already good enough.
And TNA would probably not be able to afford to do such a thing, beyond maybe just sending some young guys to New Japan or whatever lucha fed they're currently affiliated with for an extended stay.
I guess the reason WWE keeps the concept going is because they don't want to run the risk of someone they think has potential signing with TNA. I'm not sure that would really work well in reverse. TNA would have to basically pay their developmentals about the same as they pay their lowcard regulars. Anything less and you'd have to be an idiot to sign an exclusive developmental contract.
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Feb 8, 2008 7:04:56 GMT -5
Post by Baixo Astral on Feb 8, 2008 7:04:56 GMT -5
Developmental territories in wrestling seem like a pointless thing to me. Hire people who are good enough NOW and you don't need them. I guess in theory it could work if it were used to give young 18-20ish guys experience, but in practice, spending that time on the indies, maybe heading overseas tends to do a whole lot better than the way WWE grooms their young guys. It also seems to become almost an encouragment for your creative team to be lazy, as WWE uses theirs as a place to stick people that a few agents/people in power pushed to hire, but the writers don't give a crap about. So they spend a year or two in OVW and get released because "creative had nothing for them". If TNA learned from these mistakes, and took measures to make sure their way of doing developmental was totally different... But that's asking a whole lot. One thing I like is WWE's supposed interest in international developmental territories. Getting your young guys in front of different audiences than just Kentucky hicks would probably help matters a lot. Spending some time working in Japan or Europe or Mexico, or hell travelling aorund to all of them. Probably would be really hard to keep something like that organized though. And even still seems like more trouble than it's worth, there are plenty of guys who are already good enough. And TNA would probably not be able to afford to do such a thing, beyond maybe just sending some young guys to New Japan or whatever lucha fed they're currently affiliated with for an extended stay. I guess the reason WWE keeps the concept going is because they don't want to run the risk of someone they think has potential signing with TNA. I'm not sure that would really work well in reverse. TNA would have to basically pay their developmentals about the same as they pay their lowcard regulars. Anything less and you'd have to be an idiot to sign an exclusive developmental contract. WWE should just put guys on retainer, and then send them out on tours but away from TNA, much like they've done a lot in the past with All Star Wrestling in the UK - gives them a chance to work in front of varied crowds, and All Star in particular works a massively WWE influenced style.
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